One key failing of President Obama is that he blew into office in full campaign mode expecting to govern with soundbites and campaign slogans. He and his handlers are mostly from Chicago and are products of Chicago's notoriously corrupt political machine. Obama has no executive experience. He has never run a business, a county, or even a state. He was not prepared to be President and he made the mistake of keeping his camp of Chicago politicos intact once he assumed command.
I get the sense he feels entitled -- that he has bought into all the media hype of his "historic" presidency. Everything he does is "historic". Perhaps, once his reign is shaken out by history, the one truly historic thing he did was win a Nobel Prize without actually having to accomplish anything. They awarded the prize before he earned it.
I think that is what he expects us Americans to do when it comes to his policies. He wants us to put our full trust and faith in him before he proves himself.
Whenever you want to judge future performance of someone you need to look at their track record with similiar programs. A good measure of how the federal government will manage a state-run health care system is to look at how they have managed Medicare. If Obama wants to earn our good graces enough to trust him with the health care for every American he should prove himself by reforming Medicare. All of his claims for paying for this monster of a program he proposes revolve around his promise to cut the waste. Well, if he can cut the waste from something as huge as nationalized health care for everyone, certainly he can cut the waste from a much smaller program of the same type. Can't he? So why doesn't he? Why is he not purging the waste from Medicare? Because he can't. It is impossible to remove corruption from a political being. And what happens to the Average taxpayer when nationalized health care proves to be as corrupt as every other political agency? We fail. And don't think the repubicans can or will sweep in and undo the mess if this plan becomes law. No entitlement program has ever been retracted. It won't happen.
So please, Mr. President, prove yourself. Do something small, anything, to earn our trust before you try to conquer the world.
